Philip Ticknesse

The Speaking Figure and the Automaton Chess-player, Exposed and Detected

John Stockdale, London 1784.

Karl Gottlieb Windisch

Inanimate Reason or a Circumstantial Account of that Astonishing Piece of Mechanism M. de Kempelen's Chess-player

S. Bladon, London 1784.

Philip Astley

Natural Magic or Physical Amusements Revealed

Author, London 1785.

Henri Decremps

Cinque sessioni nelle quali si accennano macchine maravigliose e giuochi assai più sorprendenti di quelli

Fratelli Conzatti a San Lorenzo, Padova 1788.